W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham CHwas a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth25 January 1874
happens love man woman
Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.
love men knows
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
falling-in-love men might
With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.
love sacrifice men
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
firsts doe lovers
They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.
love-is men giving
For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not the very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them.
life love-is tragedy
The tragedy of love is indifference.
dog love-you soul
Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls.
heart love-is thinking
The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care? Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
love believe men
The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.
falling-in-love heart men
Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.' Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.
love-is elements essentials
The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
lovely self-pity get-up
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
love two meat
It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.